Verb

(provid)

To make a living; earn money for necessities.

It is difficult to provide for my family working on minimum wage.

To act to prepare for something.

To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.

The contract provides that the work be well done.

I'll lend you the money, provided that you pay it back by Monday.

To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.

Don't bother bringing equipment, as we will provide it.

We aim to provide the local community with more green spaces.

To furnish (with), cause to be present.

* Arbuthnot

Rome was well provided with corn.

To make possible or attainable.

He provides us with an alternative option.

* Milton

Bring me berries, or such cooling fruit / As the kind, hospitable woods provide .

(obsolete, Latinism) To foresee.

(Ben Jonson)

To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor .

(Prescott)

Verb

(operat)

(transitive, or, intransitive) To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.

(transitive, or, intransitive) To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (medicine) to take appropriate effect on the human system.

(transitive, or, intransitive) To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.

* Atterbury

The virtues of private persons operate but on a few.

* Jonathan Swift

A plain, convincing reason operates on the mind both of a learned and ignorant hearer as long as they live.

To perform some manual act upon a human body in a methodical manner, and usually with instruments, with a view to restore soundness or health, as in amputation, lithotomy, etc.

(transitive, or, intransitive) To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.

(transitive, or, intransitive) To produce, as an effect; to cause.

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(transitive, or, intransitive) To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work.

to operate a machine

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